Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

About Big Mood, Little Mood with Daniel M. Lavery

Every week, Danny M. Lavery brings on a guest to answer questions from listeners before diving into conversation about relationships, dissatisfaction, drives, regrets, estrangement, embarrassment, self-assessments, and feelings from the monumental to the minute. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.

Publisher

Slate Podcasts

Category

health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Jun 2016

Latest episode

5 Feb 2025

Latest episodes

43 of 446 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Feb 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Outward | Creating A Home for Trans Surgery Recovery

   This week, Jules Gill-Peterson sits down with Owen Dempsey, the founder of Quest Healing House, a post-op recovery home providing safe, affordable lodging and wraparound support for transmasculine people. They discuss how Quest House, began, the urgent need for trans-led recovery spaces, and how the project has grown to meet community needs. Dempsey shares their vision for a future where no trans person has to heal alone—and why it’s so critical to talk about transition as an ongoing, years-long process. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   8 Jan 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Outward: Conversion Therapy and Survival with Lucas Wilson

   Bryan Lowder talks with writer and scholar Lucas Wilson about his new book, Shame Sex: Survivors’ Stories of Conversion Therapy. They chat about Wilson’s experience navigating same-sex attraction while on an evangelical path, experiencing conversion therapy, and the complicated relationships he experienced along the way. He also shares powerful stories from other survivors and explores the enduring harm of these practices, offering a poignant look at resilience, shame, and healing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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   11 Dec 2024TRANSCRIPT

   Outward: How Lesbian Artists Turned Renaissance Ruins Into Queer Spaces with Kate Thomas

   This week, Christina Cauterucci explores the intimate connections between queer identity and the natural world with Bryn Mawr professor Kate Thomas. In this episode, we journey through the lives of Florence Blood and Princess Ghika, two enigmatic lesbians who found self-expression, love, and freedom renovating their Italian Renaissance estate at the turn of the 20th century- creating an enchanting landscape to host lesbian artists and thinkers of the time. Thomas unpacks how their landscapes reflect their identities and what they can teach us about the enduring relationship between queerness and the environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Inside a recent episode

Outward | Creating A Home for Trans Surgery Recovery

Published 5 Feb 2025 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Yeah, so you know, when any person or people are going through medical procedures or some like major life changing experiences, we are wired to seek out others going through the same thing where as humans were built for connection, we want to be seen and known and cared for, and you know, there have been studies and trials across healthcare fields that repeatedly shown the benefits of peer support to healing, you know, not just for trans individuals, but for anyone navigating a major medical experience, literature from cardiac and respiratory surgery fields have indicated that this kind of peer support isn't just good for surgery recovery, but also for general quality of life and health outcomes on a larger scale. […]

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

125,543

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.3 / 5

1,048 ratings

Spotify

4.8 / 5

124 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

95

Social presence

0

YouTube

82

Engagement

75

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